Splendour marked the annual ‘Ratha Sapthami’ festival at the temple of Lord Venkateswara, at Tirumala on Friday. The festival began with the procession of ‘Surya Prabha’ vahanam in the morning and concluded with ‘Chandra Prabha’ at night. In between, the processional deity of Lord Malayappa Swamy was brought out on other five different vahanams.
Thousands of pilgrims who had reached the temple town on Thursday converged at the north-west corner of the hill temple to witness the first rays of the sun fall on the deity mounted atop the ‘Surya Prabha’ vahanam.
